The Romantics

Pankaj Mishra

'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' HILARY MANTEL'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page ...

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2 - From Colette to Marie NDiaye

Patrick McGuinness (editor)

A major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century'A story? No. No stories, never again...'The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery...